TIJUANA  This city's opera enthusiasts are planning a homage next month to the 19th-century Italian composer Guiseppe Verdi in the annual Festival de Ópera en la Calle, or Tijuana Street Opera Festival.

Now in its tenth year, the festival produced by the Tijuana Opera, led by María Teresa Riqué and José Medina, this year will include appearances by members of the Tijuana Opera Chorus, the Tijuana Youth Symphony, the Pendulo Cero dance company, as well as range of presentations by other performers and visual artists, the organizers say.

The festivities will culminate in a performance of scenes from Verdi’s grand opera, Aida, with native sons Armando Pesqueira as conductor and Medina as artistic director.

The event takes place on from noon until midnight on Saturday, July 13. In Tijuana’s Colonia Libertad near the San Ysidro border, on Fifth Street near Calle Aquiles Serdan. Free.